Broken

3.5 stars. Lawson's message about removing the stigma from mental illness is always needed, and her descriptions of how it feels to live with depression, anxiety, and a host of physical ailments are poignant and true (as a person who also lives with depression). But after a while her surreal arguments with her husband, and bizarre stream of consciousness conversations with her friends/family become repetitive. I skimmed through a lot of those chapters to get to the more substantial ones.

One thing I do appreciate about Lawson is that she never uses her daughter Hailey to get a laugh; in fact, I know almost nothing about how old Hailey is, whether she still lives with them, etc. With today's shameless Mom blogging, I'm glad there's one Mom who understands something about privacy, especially considering how little she hides about her own life.